This is a Spenglerian critique, and as such I’ll be operating with Spengler’s practice of “spiritual physiognomy”. Physiognomy simply means “knowing from the physical”, and was a branch of science (once popular, long “discredited”, and thus most likely true), which asserted that one can predict a person’s inner characteristics from their physical appearance. Physiognomy of […]
I feel like this is an entirely quixotic mission, but it’s something that ought to be put out there nonetheless: The ancient Greeks and Romans are not part of Western culture. Homer is no more a part of the Western canon than the Bhagvad Gita or the Tao Te Ching. When I see something like […]
The traditional award of prime inheritance rights to the firstborn son strikes most moderns as arbitrary and unnecessary. Like most traditions of medieval times, of course, there was very good reason for it. Actually, there were a few: The first and prime reason has to do with political stability. In this case the firstborn is […]
Your distant ancestors did not have a word for romantic love. They did not believe in a transcendent emotion felt between men and women that existed as a more pure form of sexual desire. The introduction of such an idea into our culture is completely foreign and likely results from a mistranslation of the Greek […]
When I was a kid, my parents explained our two party system as being like two parents. The GOP was the strict father who wanted you to be self-sufficient and the Dems were the nurturing mother who looked after the unfortunate. I bought into that when I was a kid, and rhetorically it kind of […]
I don’t, like Moldbug eventually admitted, forsee the West being restored under any banner but the Cross. With that in mind, the good old RCC needs a few updates to be able to successfully do battle with modernity. I can hear our Catholic reactionaries getting the old stake and tinder ready as I type this, […]
I’ve been agonizing for years over the elusive ‘center’ from which power flows. It’s been like wandering through a maze. Where is the spring, the source of the river? Culture is downstream of power, but from where flows power? It’s sex. Period. Sex is to civilization what gasoline is to modernity. Gasoline should not be […]
